Tara K Howe is a Canadian/American writer currently living in Moscow, Idaho. She speaks many languages - English. French. Science. Earth. Womb. Death. Birth. Body. Drum. - to explore the nature of somatic consciousness. "She Says It This Way :" began as an experiment in allowing form to serve as a support structure that might recondition the mind/body post-trauma. The project evolved into a micro-memoir, becoming its own container from which to study the ways grammar, sound, rhythm and syntax are ancestral-become home / of the earth. She has an MFA from the University of Idaho and her work has been published in several journals.